A NOT-FOR-PROFIT community-based agency, dedicated to helping youth
and families
cope in today's changing world. We serve as a prevention model for
the
North Shore Communities in developing anti-violence, drug and alcohol-free
projects.

Janene Gentile
of Miller Place beams with the pride reflected on her shirt — which reads, "The
Few, the Proud, Marine Moms" — as
her son, Lance Corporal Robert Shilling, and 30 other Marines are
welcomed home by the North Shore Youth Council. Legislator Dan Losquadro,
left,
and other residents who helped supply the Marines were also there.
04/29/2005 | 06:11 AM

Welcome
Home signs plastered the outside walls and front door of North Shore
Youth Council (NSYC) headquarters at the Joseph
A. Edgar Elementary
School Monday afternoon to greet 30 United States Marines of the
Sixth Communication Battalion sent home from Iraq just one
month ago. The
venue may seem odd, but it's not. The children who attend the programs
there have sent over 2,000 pounds of supplies to fighting men and
women stationed in the Middle East, according to the North
Shore Youth Council's
executive director....Read more....

ROCKY POINT--Younger siblings all over the North
Shore are wondering if aliens abducted their older brothers and sisters,
and returned nicer ones
in their place.

The
effects of the Big Buddy/Little Buddy program organized by the
North Shore Youth Council are profound in its participants and
are felt by those around them. Such was the testimony of parents,
school administrators, program coordinators, "big buddies" and "little
buddies" at a banquet Monday celebrating the program's accomplishments.